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London midday: Banks and pharmas drag Footsie lower

Tue, 20th Dec 2011 11:54

London's blue chip index was slightly down at midday, despite a temporary stint in the blue, with heavyweight banking and pharmaceuticals stocks providing a drag. The Footsie nevertheless has been trading within a narrow range, with just 33 points separating the intraday low and high.The European Union (EU) Member States announced last night their plan to increase the International Monetary Fund's (IMF's) resources in order to "enhance the IMF's capacity to fulfil its systemic responsibilities in support of its global membership, which is especially important given the ongoing economic slowdown and financial market tensions." Specifically, Eurozone ministers confirmed last night that they will provide €150bn of additional resources through bilateral loans, although the amount is less than the €200bn that the market expected.Helping sentiment was the German Ifo business climate index which rose from 106.6 in November to 107.2 in December.BANKS TUMBLE AFTER OSBORNE SHAKE-UPRoyal Bank of Scotland (RBS) was among the heavy fallers as investors digested yesterday's announcement that the government wants the bank to become a UK-focused institution with significantly reduced investment banking activities. In other news, RBS and private equity giant Blackstone Group are set to finalise a deal in which the bank will relinquish control of £1.4bn of distressed property loans to the American group, according to reports.Sector peers Barclays and Lloyds were also under the weather after Chancellor George Osborne also backed the main proposals of the Vickers report which had looked at the problems faced by the UK banking sector. The shake-up would mean that high street banking services will be "ring fenced" from investment banking.Pharmaceutical giant AstraZeneca fell after warning that will come in at the lower end of expectations after it took a $381.5m hit from failed drug tests. GlaxoSmithKline also dropped.Aggreko kept on rising, extending gains made yesterday after the temporary power supplier said that full-year profits would be slightly ahead of its previous guidance.On the FTSE 250, private equity group SVG Capital soared after saying it would return up to £170m to shareholders via share buy-backs and tender offers as part of a new investment strategy.Shareholders of bus and train group National Express were underwhelmed after it said that profits should be in line with expectations for the year ended 31 December, with the group having seen revenues and profits grow across all devisions.Retailers JD Sport Fashion, Carpetright and Dixons Retail were in the red despite the Nationwide consumer confidence index rising to the 40 point level in November, from 36 the month before. The market consensus had been expecting a further drop to 34 points.SMALL CAP MOVERSShares in Indian investment firm Dhir rocketed over 140% after the company revealed it is considering a number of options to unlock the value in the company, including acceptance of a cash offer from company director Alok Dhir.Engineering consultant WSP rose 23% after announcing that it has signed a new credit facility as trading for the year ending 31 December 2011 continues in line with company forecasts.Berkeley Mineral Resources, the Zambia-focused minerals company, has seen its share price shoot up 8% this morning after announcing it has bought an option on stockpiles of copper tailings located in the Chingola area in the north of the country.Shares in Silvermere, an independent oil and gas company, dived 30% after the firm announced a delay in production plans for the I-1 Well on its Mustang Island asset located in Texas waters in the Gulf of Mexico. BCFTSE 100 - RisersAggreko (AGK) 1,903.00p +2.98%Old Mutual (OML) 129.20p +2.70%CRH (CRH) 1,175.00p +1.91%ITV (ITV) 62.10p +1.89%Kingfisher (KGF) 243.00p +1.55%Meggitt (MGGT) 342.00p +1.39%WPP (WPP) 647.50p +1.33%Man Group (EMG) 125.30p +1.21%International Consolidated Airlines Group SA (IAG) 143.30p +1.20%British Sky Broadcasting Group (BSY) 717.50p +1.20%FTSE 100 - FallersRoyal Bank of Scotland Group (RBS) 18.64p -3.92%AstraZeneca (AZN) 2,881.50p -2.29%GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) 1,422.50p -1.90%Lloyds Banking Group (LLOY) 23.02p -1.88%Hammerson (HMSO) 341.20p -1.16%British American Tobacco (BATS) 2,944.00p -0.96%BG Group (BG.) 1,302.00p -0.91%National Grid (NG.) 602.00p -0.91%Diageo (DGE) 1,342.50p -0.85%Barclays (BARC) 164.55p -0.84%FTSE 250 - RisersSVG Capital (SVI) 200.50p +21.44%Savills (SVS) 319.80p +2.83%New World Resources A Shares (NWR) 420.00p +2.59%BH Global Ltd. USD Shares (BHGU) 11.85 +2.16%Kesa Electricals (KESA) 61.40p +1.99%Big Yellow Group (BYG) 242.70p +1.97%Paragon Group Of Companies (PAG) 177.80p +1.95%Allied Gold Mining (ALD) 139.50p +1.82%UBM (UBM) 456.00p +1.79%Wood Group (John) (WG.) 631.50p +1.77%FTSE 250 - FallersJD Sports Fashion (JD.) 610.50p -5.50%Carpetright (CPR) 487.80p -3.69%Ocado Group (OCDO) 57.15p -3.46%JPMorgan Indian Inv Trust (JII) 306.60p -3.28%Galliford Try (GFRD) 436.20p -3.07%Centamin Egypt Ltd. (CEY) 81.80p -2.44%Imagination Technologies Group (IMG) 518.00p -2.26%Cape (CIU) 302.20p -2.14%F&C Asset Management (FCAM) 62.30p -2.12%COLT Group SA (COLT) 87.80p -2.12%
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20 Dec 2011 08:47

Berkeley Mineral Resources soars on copper option

Berkeley Mineral Resources, the Zambia-focused minerals company, has seen its share price shoot up 8% this morning after announcing it has bought an option on stockpiles of copper tailings located in the Chingola area in the north of the country. Tailings are the residue of mining activity which of

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25 Nov 2011 08:04

Berkeley Mineral to cash in on zinc and lead dump

Berkeley Mineral Resources (BMR), the firm which owns the disused Kabwe mine in Zambia, says it is in discussions to sell on one of the huge residue dumps that it currently owns. In the mining industry, residue material is known as "tailings". Kabwe mine has three major dumps of tailings and they a

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23 Nov 2011 09:18

Berkeley Mineral Resources sees more value at Kabwe mine

Berkeley Mineral Resources, the company which aims to extract zinc and lead from residue dumps at the disused Kabwe mine in Zambia has begun re-drilling slag stockpiles. This phase of drilling is being carried out with the "percussion drills" necessary to provide samples that can be assessed by sci

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30 Aug 2011 17:19

Glencore non-exec buys first shares

Non-executive director Peter Coates has opened his account in Glencore, spending £320,000 on shares in the Swiss commodity trading house. He took 82,700 shares at 387.2p a time and has already banked a tidy profit, with the shares closing just short of 400p today. Coates is the chairman of Austral

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15 Aug 2011 13:17

Dragon's Den's Peter Jones puts up the money

Dragon's Den entrepreneur and business tycoon Peter Jones has used some of the proceeds of his sale of one of his telecoms businesses, Wireless Logic, to buy more shares in the online consumer electronics business eXpansys He bought 35,634,200 shares at 2.42p. Jones, the non-executive deputy cha

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10 Jun 2011 11:57

Berkeley will go ahead with share placement and one acquisition

Miner and metals processor Berkeley Mineral Resources has today announced that its due diligence on BMR's proposed purchase of all the remaining stockpiles of tailings, not presently owned by it at the Kabwe mine, in Zambia, has been completed satisfactorily. The acquisition is now expected to go

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11 May 2011 16:36

BMR may issue discounted shares to fund bid

Miner and metals processor Berkeley Mineral Resources got a bit of a bashing on Wednesday as it proposed to place 145m new shares at 4p each, well below the prevailing mid-market price. In addition to the new placing shares the company will issue one warrant for every two placing shares subscribed

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7 Apr 2011 15:45

Diageo finance boss tops up

Diageo's finance boss Deirdre Mahlan has added to her stake in the Guinness brewer and spirits supplier, buying nearly £150,000 of shares. The American took 3,021 American Depositary Shares (ADS) in the company. An ADS, which is equivalent to four ordinary shares, is a dollar denominated share of

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31 Mar 2011 10:46

Berkeley Mineral 'positive' despite bigger loss

Losses increased at Berkeley Mineral Resources during the first half, but production at Kabwe in Zambia should start during the second half and the outlook is "very positive". The company lost £863,632 in the six months ended 31 December 2010, up from £232,468 the year before, although the latest n

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28 Mar 2011 15:40

Berkeley Mineral completes Zambia purchase

The delayed acquisition of a zinc asset in Zambia by Berkeley Mineral Resources (BMR) has finally gone through. The UK mining tailings processor saw its share price slump back in December when it announced a delay in its acquisition of the remaining stockpiles of lead and zinc tailings at the Kabwe

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13 Dec 2010 11:10

Small caps round-up: Berkeley Mineral, Goldplat

A delay in its acquisition of a zinc asset in Zambia has sent shares in miner and metals processor Berkeley Mineral Resources sharply lower. Completion of the acquisition of the Kabwe tailings dump, where materials left over from previous mining operations are processed, is now expected to take pl

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26 Nov 2010 08:01

Berkeley Mineral has funding for Kabwe acquisition

Mining and processing company Berekeley Mineral is on the look-out for more things to buy once it has completed the acquisition of the remaining tailings at Kabwe, Zambia. The company acquired an option to secure the rights to process the remaining stockpiles of lead and zinc at Kabwe Mine, Zambia

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4 Oct 2010 12:57

Small caps round-up: Infrastrata, Nexus, Western & Oriental

Gas storage group Infrastrata says it can get a project in Dorset moving forward after completing legal agreements with its partner eCORP. eCORP has acquired 50% of the project company, Portland Gas, in return for funding the next £22.9m for investment in the project, to match the amount Infrastra

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27 Jul 2010 07:44

Berkeley Mineral Metallurgical, Mineral Plan On Time, Budget

LONDON (Dow Jones)--Berkeley Minerals Resources PLC (BMR.LN), a company primarily engaged in processing mining tailings, said Tuesday that the mineral and metallurgical due diligence program is proceeding to time and to budget. MAIN FACTS: -South African drilling company Dump and Dune were c

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7 Apr 2010 11:49

Small caps round-up: Healthcare Enterprise, Dragon Oil, Phoenix IT

Shares in Healthcare Enterprise jumped after the healthcare group reported that one of the companies in which it has shares has been given formal approval to sell an artificial insemination device in the US. Reproductive Sciences, which is 27% owned by Healthcare Enterprise, said the US Food and Dr

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